Impact of the South China Sea throughflow on the pacific low-latitude western boundary current: A numerical study for seasonal and interannual time scales

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1367-1376

  Wang, Weiwen ^a,b   Wang, Dongxiao ^a   Zhou, Wen ^b   Liu, Qinyan ^a   Yu, Yongqiang ^c   Li, Chao ^a,c  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Kuroshio; low latitude western boundary current; NEC bifurcation; South China Sea throughflow

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054105134     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-011-0142-4     Document Type: Article

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